Wilde (1997) - Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde - The Selfish Giant 

that's not exactly the same as stopping others from playing in a garden and saying that no one could play in it - if it were Oscar Wilde then it would mean he'd allow only certain into the garden and leave others either waiting at the gate or stuck inside the house looking in?

Exactly. All he had to do was break off the engagement with Constance and tell her he was not the right person for her.

It was a murky situation overall. Queensberry was a garbage person and a blatant homophobe, but Oscar was so proud and so head over heels for Bosie that he didn't think twice on how easy they can use the trial against him and ended up leaving a broken man.

Indeed seeing as he only marriage Constance out of necessity as he never had actual feelings for her because he was gay

that's not exactly the same as stopping others from playing in a garden and saying that no one could play in it - if it were Oscar Wilde then it would mean he'd allow only certain into the garden and leave others either waiting at the gate or stuck inside the house looking in?

@@williampulfer-melville8536 Do we know he didn't like her? And......can we really blame a man for covering up something that could (and did) get him blacklisted and arrested?

Not like he could avoid it thanks go his dad

@@falconeshield I think at first young men were volunteering for the army, and then when stories about what it was really like came back then volunteering numbers went down so they introduced conscription. That's what I remember from history lessons.